A Novel Understanding of Pandemic Disease in Preindustrial Europe (1300-1800): Combining History, Machine Learning and Natural Sciences

Project Information

EUROpest

Grant agreement ID: 101166700

DOI

10.3030/101166700

EC signature date 23 May 2025

Start date 1 July 2025

End date 30 June 2031

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 9 999 375,00

EU contribution

€ 9 999 375,00

Coordinated by

UNIWERSYTET MIKOLAJA KOPERNIKA
Poland

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (5)

The Circulation of Yersinia pestis in Central Eurasia before and during the First Plague Pandemic (Second to Eighth Century CE): Palaeogenetic and Historical Evidence and Sociopolitical, Ecological, and Climatic Factors

Author(s): Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, William A. McGrath, Rodo Pfister, Shengsheng Gong, Marcel Keller, Timothy P. Newfield, Uli Schamiloglu, Ulf Büntgen, Maria A. Spyrou, Bryan Averbuch, Fahu Chen, Nikolaus Schindel, Haichao Xie, Elena Xoplaki
Published in: Human Ecology, Issue 53, 2026, ISSN 0300-7839
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S10745-025-00617-6

The First Plague Pandemic in the Byzantine Empire – Toward a New Dynamic Consensus

Author(s): Dionysios Stathakopoulos, Timothy P. Newfield, Elena Xoplaki, John Haldon, Marcel Keller, Neil Roberts, Chryssa Bourbou, Lee Mordechai, Christof Paulus, Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann, Eva Hartmann, Jürg Luterbacher, Niklas Luther, Kristina Sessa, Daniëlle Slootjes, Mingyue Zhang
Published in: Human Ecology, Issue 53, 2025, ISSN 0300-7839
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S10745-025-00612-X

Early Instrumental Weather Observations From Ukraine: The ClimUAsd‐Stn.v2 Dataset, 1808–1880

Author(s): Olesya Skrynyk, Jürg Luterbacher, Rob Allan, Vladyslav Sidenko, Kateryna Saloid, Elena Xoplaki, Oleg Skrynyk, Volodymyr Osadchyi
Published in: Geoscience Data Journal, Issue 13, 2026, ISSN 2049-6060
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/GDJ3.70050

On the implementation of external forcings in a regional climate model – a sensitivity study around the Samalas volcanic eruption in the Eastern Mediterranean/Middle East

Author(s): Eva Hartmann, Mingyue Zhang, Sebastian Wagner, Muralidhar Adakudlu, Jürg Luterbacher, Elena Xoplaki
Published in: Climate of the Past, Issue 21, 2025, ISSN 1814-9332
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/CP-21-1699-2025

Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China

Author(s): M. Kempf, M. L. C. Depaermentier, R. N. Spengler III, M. D. Frachetti, F. Chen, J. Luterbacher, E. Xoplaki, U. Büntgen
Published in: Communications Earth & Environment, Issue 6, 2025, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S43247-025-03038-X